Connecticut western news., 1887-03-09
HERE AND THERE.

grow onions instead of toDacco tnls year.
 Ruth Harmon, grandmother of Mrs Cleveland, died at Jackson, Mich, Sun day.
 The annual camp meeting of the Will limantic association will be held Au- gust 22-3o.
 A syndicate of Philadelphia banks is said to hold about one-half the trade dollars in existence.
 The medical colleges of the United States have graduated over 5000 phy- sicians in the past nine years.
 Miss Mary NJ. Loring daughter of Chief Engineer Loring of the navy, died at Washington, Sunday, aged 26. Rev Dr Buckingham will iu June next celebrate the fithtieth anniversary of his pastorate in Springfield. Mass.
 The greatest reformer of the age was the inventor of the hustle, which has reformed nearly every woman. w. J. Dick, of Newtown, has sold out his hotel to New Haven gentle man named Leonard.
 License revocation proceedings have been brought against twelve Waterbury men whose saloons connect with their dwellings,.
 Edward McAllister an East Chatham farmer, dropped dead while attending au auction of stock and utensils on his farm one day last week.
 An infant child of John Burke, of Hancock, Mass, died recently from blood poisoning, caused by wearing red stockings. The New York railroad commission CTS recommend boiler iron jacket for car stoves, which can be so strongly | constructed that it cannot be broken by collision.
 X blue stone pool is about to be formed by leading blue stone firms of Ulster county, N. Y., which will have a tendency to crush out smaller firms in the state.
 By diving through hole in the ice into Norwich mill pond, Walter T. King recently rescued Charlie Neff,aged 10 years, from drowning. The boy lay on the bottom when reached. The Hartford Courant says: Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, are to erect a building in Chicago for the train ing of Christian workers, to cost S250, ,O0O nearly all of which has been subscrib- ed"
 A great cry goes up eternally about the railroads. For my part would rather have the Vanderbilts carry my trunk than to carry it myself. They can do it cheaper. Edward Atkinson
 Carl Schurz broke his left thigh bone by falling on an icy sidewalk in New York on Saturday morning, Feb 26. Mir. Schurz's age, 5S years. will retard his recovery and it will be several months before he can venture out.
 Surveying is going on for New York grades and shortening the distance costs much less than building them. -Litchfeld Enquirer.
 l There will be no leap year between 1896 and 1904, 1900 not being leap year according to the Gregorian calendar. We make this announcement now, be- cause we think it is only just that in tending young women should have timely warning. Journal.
 James W. Fitzpatrick, the Derby correspondent of the New Haven Regis. ter, was arrested last week on criminal charge preferred by J. B. Underwood of New Haven, who is the New York agent of the Osborne X Cheesman com. pany. The arrest Is consequence o1 certain article written by Fitzpatrick and published in the Register several months since.
 Mir w. E. Penney, who for sixteer years has had charge of the postotfice a
 Millerton, N. 1., has accepted posi- tion in the wholesale drug house of E
 Hewitt X Co.,, 2S9 State street, New Haven, Conn. MT H. H. Becker ac
 cepts the position of deputy postmaste
 at Millerton, made vacant by the resig
 nation of Mir Penney.
 Under the laws of Connecticut
 majority of the directors of any railroad
 in the state must be residents of thu
 state. The Housatonic railroad compa
 ny has elected five directors who ar residents of other states, and conse quently one must resign. w. D. Bishol will probably be reelected. Judges Carpenter and Granger, o the supreme court, have filed an opin l ion dissenting from that of the majorit,
 of the judges on the Storrs Agricultura School case. This does not affect tn
 decision of the court or the subsequen action of Judge Loomis fixing the pay ment to be made by MT Storrs o
 $1 1,6OO.-B,rdgepo' Leader. Grand Master Green of the Masoni !, Grand Ledge of the State. has appoin
 District Deputy Grand Master for Fair
 al o
 Litchtield, as Deputy for Litchtiel'
 Phelps, of West Winsted, and J. H Swartwout, of Stamford, are among tn grand representatives appointed. A NEW FEATURE IN WHISPERS UN , ABRIDGED D1CTIoNARY.-The publisher 7 of Webster have recently added to tn
 Unabridged Pronouncing Gazettee ,, of the world, containing over 25 ,0O . titles, briefly describing the countries cities, towns, and natural features c r every part of the globe" It covers , hundred pages
 The old firm of T. Steele < Son jewellers, of Hartford, recently celebra
 ded to go out of business Mir Steel | IetlIeS laISelN Ou uCCouub Ol tue laIS } calls upon him of other work int t which his taste aud skill as author an r artist have drawn him.
 t A Danbury doctor and doctor of a r adjoining town visited patient throug
 a sickness of nearly three weeks
 Neither knew of the others visits Tn patient took some of the medicine pre- , scribed by each. She is now perfectl y convalescent. The question arises
 which doctor cured her ? Perhaps on
 acted as an antidote to the other.-Da " bury Ne,rs.